Alaska » Denali National Park

Denali Park Road – Denali National Park AK

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Agency: Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Public Works Administration (PWA)
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Description

The PWA helped complete the 91-mile Denali Park Road, from the park entrance to Kantishna. The road aided mining and tourism and is still used today.

Source notes

Mead & Hunt, and Cultural Resource Consultants, LLC, Alaska Roads Historic Overview: Applied Historic Context of Alaska’s Roads, Prepared for Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, 2014, p. 66. 

Denali Park Road, McKinley Park to Kantishna, (http://www.alaska.org/guide/denali-park-road), accessed on May 26, 2017.

Project originally submitted by Brent McKee & Evan Kalish on May 26, 2017.

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Location Info

Denali Visitor Center
AK 99755

Coordinates: 63.730898, -148.917145

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